Ubuntu 9.04 Beta Image

I have made a copy of ubuntu 9.04 (XFCE4 desktop) and thought some people might be able to beta test it. I dont acctually own a pi but it works with the arm1176 cpu in qemu and i gave a copy to a friend that said it booted on their Pi.

The image is for a USB. This means it does not contain the kernel or the /boot partition. The image needs to be written to a USB of at least 2GB. Then cmdline.txt on the sd card needs to be edited so that root=/dev/sda instead of /dev/mmcblk0p2.

The username and password are both ubuntu.

The .img file is in the zip here: http://my.rapidshare.com/guyf42/18768Please post any problems or reply if is working fine. All packages should be the same as when 9.04 went out of support.(Lubuntu Image coming soon)

Support for this OS version ended in 2010, whereas Raspbian with LXDE, as pointed out above is very close (functionality wise, and DNA wise) to Ubuntu (both have their roots in Debian), and Raspbian is very well supported.

A supported version of Ubuntu would be much better, but with the current lack of availability of supported Ubuntu versions for the Pi platform, and the amount of effort (and indeed, attainment) with Raspbian, it seems like a wasted effort.

Important to note that security updates are not available, and all new (and many existing) vulnerabilities (will) remain unpatched.

I'm not trying to rain on your parade - I would love a supported Ubuntu for my Pi!

Support for this OS version ended in 2010, whereas Raspbian with LXDE, as pointed out above is very close (functionality wise, and DNA wise) to Ubuntu (both have their roots in Debian), and Raspbian is very well supported.

A supported version of Ubuntu would be much better, but with the current lack of availability of supported Ubuntu versions for the Pi platform, and the amount of effort (and indeed, attainment) with Raspbian, it seems like a wasted effort.

Important to note that security updates are not available, and all new (and many existing) vulnerabilities (will) remain unpatched.

I'm not trying to rain on your parade - I would love a supported Ubuntu for my Pi!

I completely agree with the security updates being a problem. I did try and get ubuntu 9.10 to work (i know its also out of date but its closer) But who knows, maybe with a base someone else could build on it and get an upgrade to 10.04 working. Its also just nice for the people who use ubuntu already (like me)

Just thought I'd mention Thanks to my Friend James (different james from jamesh) for letting me borrow his Pi while I tested the Image. Even though I didn't get a working build while I borrowed it. He also was the one who checked that it booted on the Pi after I had it working in QEMU.

I plan to upload just a tarball that can just be untared onto the usb (or in this case you could overwrite the ext4 partition of the SD) that will allow you to use the whole drive without expanding it. Its being uploaded now. Also any news from the people who have downloaded it? It it all working?

Forget it, it's too old to run on a modern Raspberry Pi. It's a five year old (nearly six year old) version of Ubuntu and not even an LTS version. The LTS (Lucid 10.04) version from around that time goes out of support in April.

carpysoft wrote:Whatever happened to this image? I'm trying to make some older code run on the RPI but having troubles with older kernels/distros. Would love to try this 9.04 image if you still have it.

carpysoft wrote:Whatever happened to this image? I'm trying to make some older code run on the RPI but having troubles with older kernels/distros. Would love to try this 9.04 image if you still have it.

Thanks!Matt

I haven't logged in for about 18 months, but if you still want it, I have it on an old laptop, I'll upload it when I get a chance.